[Gluster-devel] Connecting via unix socket instead of IP socket

Dan Parsons dparsons at nyip.net
Tue May 13 16:55:03 UTC 2008


Any luck on documenting this? I'd relaly like to set it up.


Dan Parsons


On May 10, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:

> Hi Gordan,
> "option transport-type unix/server" is available. Even better  
> approach is to
> run in single address mode (server and client merged into single  
> process).
>
> I will have Amar document it.
>
> We are also introducing binary protocol and non-blocking sockets in  
> the
> next release which will improve performance significantly.
>
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> Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Is there a way to mount locally via a unix domain socket rather  
>> than via loopback interface? It seems rather wasteful to be passing  
>> all the traffic through the TCP/IP stack for a local mount in cases  
>> when the server is also a client for the shared mount.
>> i.e. is there something like "option transport-type unix/client"?
>> Gordan
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